According to Shad Plank, Mayor Doug Wilder won’t seek reelection this November.

Update: RTD has a bit, too.

According to the Guardian, 46% of web users think bloggers should sign on with a code that reflects laws on defamation and intellectual property, while only 32% of bloggers supported it.  More interestingly, only 4% of users opposed while 36% of bloggers thought the idea was bad, bad, bad.

Tim Kaine’s transportation plan is out and it’s not pretty no matter how you look at it.  He proposes imposing an increase in the sales tax in NOVA and Hampton Roads (the same type of increased that was killed by referendum by NOVA voters in 2002), a bump in the tax on car titling and a statewide increase in the grantor’s tax charged when one sells their home.  You know, because the housing market is a great place to be looking for money these days.

DJ does a good job dissecting the proposal, as does Brian Kirwin, Va Patriot and LG Bill Bolling.

VCU is going to have its monthly siren test today.  Not sure if the media turnout will be similar to the last few times, but there’s currently a helicopter circling the campus.  Though that might be more tied to the excitement at University of Richmond yesterday than anything else.

Amazon has The Coen Brothers Movie Collection for a mere $20!  That’s Fargo, Miller’s Crossing (one of the best movies ever), Barton Fink, Raising Arizona and Blood Simple for $4 a pop.  Go get some!

I’m usually pretty skeptical of the whole “video games cause crime” argument, but maybe those folks are right.

So much for having a life.

Finally, a use for Twitter!

Robert E. Lee was caught watching women dress at the Virginia Center Commons Sears:

First Robert E. Lee lost the Southern cause, now one of his more recent rear-guard actions has him in hot water in Henrico County Circuit Court.

It seems the rears that this Lee — of the 8000 block of Creighton Parkway in Mechanicsville — tried guarding were not among his assigned duties as an assistant manager at the Virginia Center Commons Sears in March 2006.

No, the rears in question were trying on bathing suits in the ladies’ dressing room, above which Lee had taken up a scouting post. The action has already earned Lee two convictions for peeping.

Now Lee’s being sued for $2.7 million — that’s federal currency, not Confederate bonds. The facts: One of Lee’s victims, a pre-pubescent girl, happened to glance up to notice Lee watching her through the ceiling tiles and reported it to store officials.

The Consumerist picked up the story too.

The804.com has a good rundown on Richmond media and blogs and it’s hard to argue with the assessment.

VCU and basketball coach Anthony Grant have agreed to a contract extension that would keep Grant at VCU through 2014.  Good for VCU and hopefully really good for Grant

VPAP has a new look.  I dig.

Twist is a neat little service that lets you see trends in Twitter threads, like how many posts are talking about Obama, Clinton or McCain in the last week or so.